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1 | NAME |
2 | PerlCE - perl for Windows CE | |
3 | ||
4 | DESCRIPTION | |
5 | PerlCE is a simple port of perl to Windows CE. The program | |
6 | is currently linked with a simple console window, so it also | |
7 | works on non-hpc devices. | |
8 | ||
9 | The simple stdio implementation creates the files stdin.txt, | |
10 | stdout.txt and stderr.txt, so you might examine them if your | |
11 | console has only a liminted number of cols. | |
12 | ||
13 | When exitcode is non-zero, a message box appears, otherwise the | |
14 | console closes, so you might have to catch an exit with | |
15 | status 0 in your program to see any output. | |
16 | ||
17 | stdout/stderr now go into the files /perl-stdout.txt and | |
18 | /perl-stderr.txt. | |
19 | ||
20 | LIMITATIONS | |
21 | No fork(), pipe(), popen() etc. | |
22 | ||
23 | ENVIRONMENT | |
24 | All environment vars must be stored in HKLM\Environment as | |
25 | strings. They are read at process startup. | |
26 | ||
27 | PERL5LIB - Usual perl lib path (semi-list). | |
28 | PATH - Semi-list for executables. | |
29 | TMP - Tempdir. | |
30 | UNIXROOTPATH - Root for accessing some special files, | |
31 | i.e. /dev/null, /etc/services. | |
32 | ROWS/COLS - Rows/cols for console. | |
33 | HOME - Home directory. | |
34 | CONSOLEFONTSIZE - Size for console font. | |
35 | ||
36 | You can set these with cereg.exe, a (remote) registry editor | |
37 | or via the PerlIDE. | |
38 | ||
39 | REGISTRY | |
40 | To start perl by clicking on a perl source file, you have | |
41 | to make the according entries in HKCR (see wince-reg.bat). | |
42 | cereg.exe (which must be executed on a desktop pc with | |
43 | ActiveSync) is reported not to work on some devices. | |
44 | You have to create the registry entries by hand using a | |
45 | registry editor. | |
46 | ||
47 | FILES | |
48 | $(UNIXROOTPATH)/dev/null - nul simulation, needed for perl -V | |
49 | $(UNIXROOTPATH)/etc/services - services file | |
50 | ||
51 | /perl-stdin.txt | |
52 | /perl-stdout.txt | |
53 | /perl-stderr.txt | |
54 | ||
55 | PERLFILES | |
56 | Only a limited set of perl files is provided in the | |
57 | distribution archiv. You have to copy the original PERL5LIB | |
58 | files from a perl for win32 installation and put the | |
59 | distributed files into the right directories. | |
60 | ||
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61 | The following files are a reasonable minimum if you want to do |
62 | some socket stuff: | |
63 | ||
64 | ./auto | |
65 | ./auto/DynaLoader | |
66 | ./auto/DynaLoader/autosplit.ix | |
67 | ./auto/DynaLoader/dl_expandspec.al | |
68 | ./auto/DynaLoader/dl_findfile.al | |
69 | ./auto/DynaLoader/dl_find_symbol_anywhere.al | |
70 | ./auto/IO | |
71 | ./auto/IO/IO.bs | |
72 | ./auto/IO/IO.dll | |
73 | ./auto/Socket | |
74 | ./auto/Socket/Socket.bs | |
75 | ./auto/Socket/Socket.dll | |
76 | ./Carp | |
77 | ./Carp/Heavy.pm | |
78 | ./Carp.pm | |
79 | ./Config.pm | |
80 | ./DynaLoader.pm | |
81 | ./Exporter | |
82 | ./Exporter/Heavy.pm | |
83 | ./Exporter.pm | |
84 | ./IO | |
85 | ./IO/File.pm | |
86 | ./IO/Handle.pm | |
87 | ./IO/Socket.pm | |
88 | ./IO.pm | |
89 | ./SelectSaver.pm | |
90 | ./Socket.pm | |
91 | ./strict.pm | |
92 | ./Symbol.pm | |
93 | ./warnings | |
94 | ./warnings/register.pm | |
95 | ./warnings.pm | |
96 | ./XSLoader.pm | |
97 | ||
98 | XS | |
99 | The following Win32-Methods are built-in: | |
100 | ||
101 | newXS("Win32::GetCwd", w32_GetCwd, file); | |
102 | newXS("Win32::SetCwd", w32_SetCwd, file); | |
103 | newXS("Win32::GetTickCount", w32_GetTickCount, file); | |
104 | newXS("Win32::GetOSVersion", w32_GetOSVersion, file); | |
105 | newXS("Win32::IsWinNT", w32_IsWinNT, file); | |
106 | newXS("Win32::IsWin95", w32_IsWin95, file); | |
107 | newXS("Win32::IsWinCE", w32_IsWinCE, file); | |
108 | newXS("Win32::CopyFile", w32_CopyFile, file); | |
109 | newXS("Win32::Sleep", w32_Sleep, file); | |
110 | newXS("Win32::MessageBox", w32_MessageBox, file); | |
111 | newXS("Win32::GetPowerStatus", w32_GetPowerStatus, file); | |
112 | newXS("Win32::GetOemInfo", w32_GetOemInfo, file); | |
113 | newXS("Win32::ShellEx", w32_ShellEx, file); | |
114 | ||
115 | DLLS | |
116 | In the newest version, my celib.dll is needed. Some XS dlls | |
117 | might be needed. Currently, Socket and IO are provided. | |
118 | ||
119 | BUGS | |
120 | Opening files for read-write is currently not supported if | |
121 | they use stdio (normal perl file handles). | |
122 | ||
123 | If you find bugs or if it does not work at all on your | |
124 | device, send mail to the address below. Please report | |
125 | the details of your device (processor, ceversion, | |
126 | devicetype (hpc/palm/pocket)) and the date of the downloaded | |
127 | files. | |
128 | ||
129 | I currently have only a Compaq/MIPS HPC, a Jornada/SH3 HPC and | |
130 | a Jornada/ARM HPC, so I can only test on these devices and | |
131 | under the Emulators. | |
132 | ||
133 | INSTALLATION | |
134 | This is only a suggestion... | |
135 | ||
136 | * Unpack the tar archive on your desktop. | |
137 | * Create directories /bin, /lib/perl5, /home, /dev and /etc, | |
138 | possibly on a CF card with the path to the card | |
139 | prepended (i.e. /memcard/bin etc). | |
140 | * Copy perl.exe, perl56.dll and celib.dll from your desktop to | |
141 | /bin. The dlls can also be copied to your /windows | |
142 | directory, but if you use a CF card, you might want to store | |
143 | them there. | |
144 | * Copy the other DLLs to the corresponding auto directory. | |
145 | * Copy any needed perl module-files to /lib/perl5. | |
146 | * Create the registry entries. | |
147 | * If you need tcp service-name resolution, create | |
148 | the file "services" in /etc and put int the entries you need. | |
149 | ||
150 | * Under WINCE200, all dlls must be copied to the windows | |
151 | directory. | |
152 | ||
153 | MISC | |
154 | If you think a certain XS module should be ported, send | |
155 | me mail and explain why. | |
156 | ||
157 | If you write useful scripts for perlce, please send me | |
158 | a copy. | |
159 | ||
160 | TERMINAL | |
161 | There are simple terminal control sequences now. See the | |
162 | readme file that comes with the console program. | |
163 | ||
164 | AUTHOR | |
165 | Rainer Keuchel <coyxc@rainer-keuchel.de> 2001 | |
166 |